In System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (ConfigMgr), you can install the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010 and it has a task sequence template that you can use to automate the OS deployment, SysPrep it and then Capture the OS as an Image as well.  All good, but sometimes you may want to do a little bit more, such as after you deploy the OS you want to install some additional software, etc. You can of course also create a package in SCCM for this purpose, but sometimes instead of spending time creating the package and testing it you may just want to get your hands dirty, install the stuff, ensure all the things are good and then just manually capture the image. In this article, Kip Ng shows you how you can manually capture the OS Image using the ConfigMgr supplied WinPE Boot Image and store that image to a shared directory or in a location of your preference for future usage.  Details availalbe at http://www.opsvault.com/how-to-manually-capture-an-os-image-using-configmgr/.